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The University of Tennessee, 

STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, 



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This institution is the capstone of the public educational system of the State. 
The University has been recently entirely reorganized upon a new plan as a 
Technical, Scientific and Literary Institution. It now offers first-class advan- 
tages for the education of young men, especially those looking to the profes- 
sions of Civil, Mechanical or Mining Engineering, Chemistry, Business, Farming, 
Manufacturing, Teaching, Medicine, etc. There are seven Courses of Study, 
as follows : General Science Course ; Latin-Science Course ; Course in Agri- 
culture ; Course in Civil Engineering; Course in Mechanical Engineering; 
Course in Chemistry, and Course in Mining Engineering. 



THE FACULTY is composed of sixteen professors and Instructors, all 
successful, experienced teachers. 

President — Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., graduate of the University of 
Virginia, and of the University at Goettingen, Germany, formerly professor in 
Emory and Henry College, Virginia, State Chemist and Director of the North 
Carolina Experiment Station. 

Dean and Professor of Modern Languages— Thomas L. Norwood, A. M., 
University of North Carolina, formerly head teacher at Bingham School, 
North Carolina. 

Commandant — To be a West Point Graduate, detailed from the U. S. Army. 

Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering — William W. Carson, C. E., 
M. E., graduate of Washington and Lee University, formerly Professor in 
Davidson College, North Carolina, Division Engineer of L. & B. S. R. R., etc. 

Professor of Botany and Horticulture — F. Lamson Scribner, B. S., Maine 
State College, formerly Professor in Girard College and Chief of the Bureau of 
Plant Diseases in the Department of Agriculture at Washington. 

Professor of Agriculture — Charles S. Plumb, B. S., Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, formerly assistant editor Rural New Yorker, and Assistant 
Director New York Experiment Station. 

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics— J. S. Coon, M. E., Cor- 
nell University, formerly Assistant Professor at Cornell, eight years a Mechan- 
ical and Mining Engineer. 

Professor of Latin — Thomas W. Jordan, A. M., graduate University of 
Virginia, formerly Professor in Kentucky Wesleyan College and President of 
Emory and Henry College, Virginia. 

Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy — Charles E. Wait, C. E., M. E., 
University of Virginia, formerly a Professor in St. John's College, Arkansas, 
and Director of the School of Mines of the University of Missouri. 

Associate Professor of English, Literature and History — Thomas C. Karns, 
A. M, University of Tennessee, formerly a Professor in Carson College and 
Superintendent of Schools at Union City, Tennessee. 

Associate Professor of Biology and Zoology — Henry E. Summers, B. S., 
Cornell University, Fellow and Instructor in Cornell University. 

One Assistant Professor and four Instructors complete the Corps of Instruc- 
tion. 

THE LOCATION of the University is unsurpassed for healthfulness and 
beauty. It is eleven hundred feet above the sea, in the mountains of East Ten- 
nessee. Its ten large buildings stand in a beautiful campus of fifty acres, cover- 
ing a high hill on the banks of the Tennessee river. They command an exten- 
sive and beautiful view of the valley of the river from the Smokies to the Cum- 
berland mountains, and for a hundred miles. The drainage and all sanitary 
conditions are as nearly perfect as can be. The University is located in the 
suburban town of West Knoxville, a separate corporation, and one which pro- 
hibits the sale of spirituous liquors. 

THE DISCIPLINE is on the military plan, and is thorough and strict. 
This is conducive to good morals, health and scholarship; but the military 
feature, though kept up to a high standard of excellence, is not allowed to inter- 
fere with the prosecution of study. 

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THE DRILL, which is not permitted to absorb too much time, affords fine 
physical training at a time when all boys need it. 

THREE NEW BUILDINGS have just been erected. The old buildings, 
containing the chapel, library, lecture rooms of the literary department, read- 
ing room, society halls, dormitories, etc., have been thoroughly repaired. The 
Steward's Hall has been re-arranged and furnished with the most improved 
cooking apparatus. 

The New Building for Agriculture and Natural History (see engraving) 
will contain elegant laboratories for Botany, Biology and Zoology, and Agricul- 
tural Chemistry each. It will have in addition a special library and reading 
room for Natural History, a large lecture hall and the offices of the Experiment 
Station. A complete set of the best apparatus, microscopes, books, etc., for 
these schools has just been purchased in Europe by an officer of the University. 




NEW AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING. 

The Agricultural Department has, in addition, a beautiful and well stocked 
Farm of over two hundred acres, with the experimental dairy, stables, plant 
house and horticultural grounds. The Agricultural Experiment Station estab- 
lished here recently by the United States government affords many advantages 
to scientific and agricultural students. The classes in Agriculture receive prac- 
tical instruction in the field, garden, orchards, stables, dairy, etc. 

The New Mechanical Department (see engraving) contains shops for car- 
pentering and model-making, forging and machine work, besides drawing rooms, 
recitation rooms, and a laboratory for physics. It will be furnished with the 
best tools, machinery and apparatus. 



ADMISSION. — The candidate for admission must be fifteen years of age 
and establish a good m >ra] character. A good knowledge of Arithmetic, En- 
glish Grammar and Composition, Geography and United States History is re- 
quired for admission to the lowest class. County or City Superintendents are 
required by Lawtohold examinations and recommend candidates for cadetships. 
Lei (hose interested write directly to the President at Knoxville, who will in- 
struct them. Each representative in the Legislature can appoint three and each 
Senator two young men to cadetships. 



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NEW BUILDING OF THE MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT* 

EXPENSES.— All State cadets, are entitled to free registration and tuition 
for five years, or until graduation, (equal to $300 at similar colleges). With such 
an appointment the total expenses of a cadet at the University amounts to $186.00 
for a session of ten months. This includes board (at the Steward's Hall, $10 
per month), uniform, books, furniture, fuel, lights and everything that he needs, 
except pocket money and traveling expenses. Students live in private messes 
at the rate of $5.00 per month, making their total expenses only $136. 

For other students, all expenses, including tuition, board, uniform, books, 
fires, lights, washing, &c, amount to $240.00 per ten months. 

THE NEXT SESSION begins September 6, 1888. The entrance exam- 
nations for the next Session will begin at 9 o'clock A. M., Monday, September 
3. All students must be present, matriculate, and have their classes assigned 
them before the close of the second day of the regular Session. 
*** For further information, address 



Dr. CHAS. W. DABNEY, Jr., President, 



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